Previous meetings held by Philips

In March 2016 ChapmanCG co-hosted two Amsterdam HR leaders gatherings at Philips Lighting and Naspers OLX, which included global and regional HR and functional leaders from a diverse range of industries. We enjoyed welcoming some new faces, as well as a number of close HR contacts from our 70,000-strong network who travelled from Germany and Belgium to attend the meeting. The groups included leaders from companies as diverse as AkzoNobel, Danone, Ernst & Young, Genzyme, Goodyear, Heineken, IBM, KLM, Mars, TomTom and many more. It was great to see so many attendees from previous gatherings in Amsterdam, with most sharing…

ChapmanCG co-hosted three HR networking events in Dubai in late March. Phillips, Microsoft and Maersk each hosted a number of senior HR Leaders to discuss and share insights on innovation in HR in their organisations. Matthew Chapman, CEO ChapmanCG, and Andrew Bailey, Director of BeathChapman Turkey, chaired the discussions in each of the three groups. Some key takeaways on the latest on HR trends in the Middle East include: 1) Most Middle East markets have bounced back from the doldrums of 2008-2010, and it is encouraging to see a lot of HR hiring going on at the moment. 2) We…

The Chapman Consulting Group’s recent Asia Pacific Series of HR Leaders Sessions included meetings hosted in Tokyo by AIG, AT&T, Bristol-Myers Squibb, HSBC, McDonald’s, Philips, Philip Morris and Tetra Pak, and in Osaka by Astra-Zeneca. With an overall theme of HR Transformation and Change Management, very different discussions emerged in each of the nine meetings, but there was a consistent positive energy throughout. We were very happy to welcome a large percentage of the Japan HR Leadership community across these nine separate meetings, and it was clear throughout the discussions that most HR and business leaders see the country as…

The Chapman Consulting Group spent a busy week with HR Leaders in three locations in India; Gurgaon, Mumbai and Bangalore this week. Our Half-Yearly HR Briefing Series for Quarter One and Two for India and Asia Pacific was hosted at the premises of many prominent companies such as Convergys, Philips, Nielsen, Coca-Cola, Shell, Credit Suisse, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Cisco, General Motors and Standard Chartered Bank. During this week-long series of HR Briefings with more than 300 HR Leaders across India, we noted the following trends: Increasingly, India is being split off from Asia Pacific or the Middle East…